By Banu Sutuq Aydin Anwar is delighted to see the campaign she has run on LaunchGood since 24 January 2019, has been heading fast to reach its goal of $15,000 USD. Aydin, a Uighur activist who resides in Washington D.C., started a campaign on LaunchGood, a crowdfunding platform focused on […]
By Ilyaruq Sound Vision, a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Chicago and the imams and Muslim community leaders in the United States initiated a statement condemning the ongoing persecution of Uighur Muslims by the Chinese regime. The statement called on the Chinese government to release the detainees from the concentration camps, […]
By Oyghan Rizwangul Tursun (left), 18, an Uighur girl, was detained in Vietnam in 2014 while she was fleeing from the persecution of the Chinese government and trying to join her family in Turkey. She was forcibly deported to China by the Vietnam authorities with other 16 Uighurs including four […]
By Memet Emin A special photographs exhibition “I can’t sleep – Homage to Uighur homeland” by Lisa Ross is taking place from January 17 to February 23 at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York City. During the first three days of exhibition, the exhibition featured several innovative cultural programs by Lisa […]
Jan.15, 2019 Today marks the fifth anniversary of the arrest of Ilham Tohti, an Uighur scholar, economist, writer, professor, and a freedom fighter. Chinese regime arrested Prof. Ilham Tohti on January 15th, 2014 and sentenced him to life in prison later that year. Ilham Tohti is a freedom fighter who […]
Influential Western Scholars and Politicians Voiced for Uighurs in 2018
The above three screen-shots from a social media app is a message sent from an anonymous person(i.e. whistleblower) who provided with the latest development of the horrifying anti-human crimes of the communist China in occupied East Turkistan (a.k.a Xinjiang, China). Here are the English translation of the original text in […]
Uighur Times A 2-year-old boy named Rahmetullah Shirbaki was found frozen to death on Dec. 25, 2018, in Hotan prefecture of occupied East Turkistan in China. The family of the boy is from Chokan Jilgha Village, Zava Township, Karakash County, Hotan Prefecture, East Turkistan (a.k.a. Xinjiang, China). The boy […]
On behalf of more than 3 million Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz brothers and sisters who are languishing in the concentration camps in East Turkestan, and their family members who can’t even talk about their loved ones, I thank Indonesian people who demonstrated against the Chinese concentration camps on […]
December 10, 2018 Honorable President Donald Trump, Nearly a month ago a bipartisan legislation, “Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2018”, was submitted by Senators Marco Rubio, Chris Smith, and other members of Congress. This legislation was aimed at condemning the Chinese officials responsible for pervasive human rights violations of […]